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Acidiplasma

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Domain
  
Archaea

Family
  
Ferroplasmaceae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Thermoplasmata

Phylum
  
Euryarchaeota

Order
  
Thermoplasmatales

Similar
  
Thermoplasmatales, Ferroplasma acidiphilum, Ferroplasma, Picrophilus

Acidiplasma is a genus in the phylum Euryarchaeota (Archaea).

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Etymology

The name Acidiplasma derives from:
New Latin neuter gender n acidum, an acid; Greek neuter gender noun plasma (πλάσμα), something shaped or moulded; New Latin neuter gender noun Acidiplasma, an acid-living form.

Species

The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely

  • A. aeolicum ( Golyshina et al. 2009, (Type species of the genus).; Latin neuter gender adjective aeolicum, from the Aeolian archipelago, to which Vulcano Island belongs, where the type strain was isolated.)
  • A. cupricumulans ( (Hawkes et al. 2008) Golyshina et al. 2009, ; Latin noun cuprum, copper; Latin participle adjective cumulans, heaping up, accumulating; New Latin participle adjective cupricumulans, copper-accumulating.)

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